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Feed The Animals
by Girl Talk
The fourth album for the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, artist is made from samples from a diverse palette of artists, including Jay-Z, Britney Spears, The Velvet Underground, Roy Orbison, Megadeth, UGK, and The Cure.
LABEL: |
Illegal Art |
RELEASE DATE: |
23 September 2008 |
DISCS: |
1 disc |
GENRE(S): |
Rock, Electronic |
NOTES: Available as a download on Illegal Art's website 19 Jun 2008.
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90
Sputnikmusic
Feed the Animals, despite its tentative start, is chocked full of the same bombastic booty-shaking moments that defined "Night Ripper."
83
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Gillis' sense of sonic proportion gives the whole mix a curvaceousness that make even the most unnatural tandems seem perfectly logical.
80
Pitchfork
Feed the Animals helps to solidify Gillis' role as the supreme 80s-baby pop synthesizer.
80
Slant Magazine
Feed the Animals, while perhaps not as fresh as "Night Ripper," is a sweaty, neon-lit, seizure inducing, off-the-wall, utter delight.
80
Paste Magazine
His latest musical highlight reel is dense with rib-nudging gags and indelible moments.
80
PopMatters
Feed the Animals is a wonderful achievement, but don’t take my pseudo-intellectual pontification as proof of anything, go listen to it yourself.
80
Rolling Stone
Rarely is postmodern art such bloody good fun.
80
Urb
Most of the time listening to anything that's on the Hot 100 is considered a guilty pleasure. Music for females, not fanboys. But thanks to Girl Talk, Feed the Animals makes the feeling less filthy—thus the embarrassment is less painful.
80
Blender
A DJ is only as good as his taste, and Girl Talk is immaculate. [Sept 2008, p.78]
70
Spin
Trading in easy recognition/gratification, the barrage grows as dizzyingly nostalgic as Oz's tornado. [Sep 2008, p.116]
70
RapReviews.com
While the tracks never reach and identity outside their own samples Greg does breath fresh new life into them and make things you've probably heard a thousand times, exciting again.
70
Boston Globe
Some couplings are brilliant.... Too often, though, the sheer familiarity of Girl Talk's building blocks detracts from his particular accomplishment.
67
Austin Chronicle
Doling out more free samples than Sam's Club on Sundays, Girl Talk's copyright-challenging fourth LP cuts and pastes more than 300 song snippets into a seamless but fervently paced 54-minute aural collage of club bangers that's every bit as enticing as his 2006 career-defining opus, "Night Ripper," though it sounds more like a companion piece than a fresh body of work.
60
Tiny Mix Tapes
Aside from these conceptual assertions that it evokes, Feed the Animals is a good record. Though it’s broken up into 14 tracks, it functions best (and as Girl Talk intends) as a single 53-minute mash-up.
48
cokemachineglow
Feed The Animals isn’t much of anything at all. It’s just another clip show of all your favorite records.
The average user rating for this album is 8.2 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
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